Author:Toby Smith

The latest craze in the world of CV writing brings a completely new approach – and it’s called a CV template. But what is a CV template?

It’s a ready made CV design which allows you to simply copy and paste your existing CV details across into a new template. So rather than create your own layout you can just choose one you like and run with that instead.

When we think about adding skills to our CV we often consider only specific (or hard) skills, like computer literacy, machine operation, accounting, and so on. But a soft skill refers to a more generic personal trait or attribute, like communication and problem solving.

An employer is not allowed to discriminate against someone’s age when deciding who to hire. But policing this kind of choice is very difficult, so it’s important to write a CV that doesn’t open your self up to this or anything else.